Car-brake.



PATENTBD APR. 26, 1904.

M. MABREY.

GAR BRAKE.

APPLIouIoN FILED DM. 26,' nos.

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CAR BRAKE.

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UNITED STATES atented April 2S, 1902i.

-ATENT OFFICE.

IvIoR'roN MABEEY, or BATTLEcnEEK, MICHIGAN, AssIeNoE or ONE- HALE To DANIEL D. DUGGAN, or BATTLEGREEK, MICHIGAN.

CAR-BRAKE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of4 Letters Patent No. 758,186, dated April 26, 1904. Applicata@ fue.; December 26,1902. serial No. 136,542. (No model.) Y

To all u 'wm iv' may concern.:

Be it known that I, MoRToN MAEREY, a citizen of the United States, vresiding at Battlecreek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Brakes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.l

This invention relates to that class of brakes for electric or other cars in which the inertia or momentum of the car is utilized to bring the same to a stop; and the object is to provide a simple, certain, and powerful means of accomplishing the purpose.

I am aware that friction-clutches and other similar devices have been heretofore used for operating brakes of this type; but the arrangement has been such as to produce serious objections to the practical application and adoption of the method. In some of them the clutches were so constructed that the presence of dirt or grit on the clutch-shoes would set the clutch so firmly that the brakes could not be released, and in others the parts are liable to become inoperative through the edect of dampness or ice on the frictional surfaces, thus either preventing the application of the brakes entirely or at best applying them with very little pressure.

In my improved brake I employ a clutch of such form and arrangement of parts that the members cannot become set to prevent release, and at the same time it insures a braking elfect of any desired force at the instant command of the operator.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference denote similar parts, Figure l represents a plan of the runninggear of an ordinary four-wheel car with my improved brake attached. Figs. 2 and 5 represent the friction-clutch mechanism and ar.-

Figs. 3 and 4 are end views of the clutch-hub with arms and shoes attached. Y l

A represents the sliding hub of clutch with arms and shoes c attached.

Z is the chain connecting brake-lever e with clutch-hub A.

ff are brake-rods, and G G brake-beams.

1 h is the clutch-lever or bell-crank, J the shifting rod operating from either end of the Vcar by lever-cranks It' p p p p are pivotal points of levers. n n, n n are the car-Wheels, and H H the axles.

w is a sprocket-wheel rmlyattached to one of the car-axles H and driving the countershaft D by means of wheel w and chain E.

B is a friction-Wheel attached to counterl s s .s s are set-screw fastenings to the va' rious shafts.

The operation is as follows: When the car is in motion and the several parts of runninggear and brake as shown in Fig. l, the counter shaft is rotating freely within its bearings and the sliding clutchhub A and the brakes are out of engagement. To apply the brakes, the shifting rod J is given a longitudinal movement by means of the lever-cranks llc/hat either end of the car in the proper direction, these cranks being connected to vertical shafts having'hand-wheels or cranks in convenient reach of the motorman at his station for this purpose. This operation will obviously move the sliding hub A toward the friction-wheel B by means of the bell-crank lever h and produce frictional contact between the clutchshoes and interior of rim in just the degree to which force is applied to these connections. When the clutch-hub becomes engaged with the friction-wheel, the rotary motion of same Winds up the chain-connecting hub and brakelever, thus drawing the brake-beams together and applying the brakes.

VIn the construction of the clutch mechanism the parts are disposed so that a very slight transverse movement of thel hub upon the counter-shaft shall expand the shoes of clutch-arms against the interior of the Wheelrim, and While out of engagement the ends of the shoes shall just lightly bear against the vertical face inside of same and maintained in this free position by the tension of spring M. By these means a positive engagement or release of the clutch action is secured with small movement of the connecting parts. frictional surfaces of the clutch are parallel with the axis, it is impossible that the parts could wedge or lock together and thus prevent release.

Having thus fully described and illustrated my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is=

In a car-brake, the counter-shaft mounted between the trucks, sprocket wheels and chain arranged to rotate the same continuously from one of the axles,V a friction-Wheel secured to the counter-shaft having interior bearing-surfaces for arm-shoes both parallel and at right angles to its axis, a clutch-hub sliding freely upon the counter-shaft, having three pivoted As thev radial arms with terminal shoes bearing With-v in the interior ange of the friction-wheel, and also against the vertical inside face of same, a spring operating to separate the hub and wheel, and springs operating to draw the shoes together, a chain attached to the barrel of `hub and connected to the brake-beams by lever and rod attachments, a groove in the hub and a pivoted yoke having a bell-crank-lever terminal engaging the same, a shifting rod passing longitudinally underneath the car connected to the yoke-lever of the clutch, and the cranks from brake-Wheel shafts at either end of the car, the whole constructed and arranged as shown and described.

In testimonywhereof I aix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

MORTON MABREY.

Witnesses:

FRED R. DoWsE'r'r, DAVID D. DUGGAN. 

